snapshot of today’s events:
sleep until 9:30. 9-fucking-30.
hop on the train. actually enjoy the hour and a half commute because of kavelier and clay
feel at home on campus. meet with james’ grad students over free beer and bbq.
enjoy train ride home. ride home through playful, impotent drizzle. what passes in norcal as weather. smile the whole way.
i’ve arrived.
But I can’t resist. With this link, I shall offend (slightly more than) half the country. Thanks, Ali.
leslie — 2004-11-04 23:35:24
Wooo, Texas! #40. Bottoming out again. I’m so…proud.
It’s really a horrible graphic. But I understand the allure.
no excuses this time. we saw what he did, and we clearly want more. fuck. give the people what they want.
who’s coming with me to canada?
Ali — 2004-11-03 10:16:53
From experince, Canada is really too cold. You can have a summer home there, but Mexico seems like a much nicer place to be between October and say May.
bryan — 2004-11-03 12:11:38
okay, so we’ll summer in canada, and live the rest of the year in the chiuauan desert, raising goats and playing frisbee.
em — 2004-11-09 00:06:57
Or did we not really want more? http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=284
Ali — 2004-11-13 20:25:19
So, I’ve been excited about this new Grand Theft Auto game for a while now. Since February when it was announced, I’ve been patiently biding my time, pretending to be interested in working a job or getting a Ph.D., when in truth all I want to do is play the game. None of you suspected, did you?
The release date of the game is the 26 Oct. As it turns out, there was a leak of the game onto the internet a couple of days ago, and so inevitably I already have a copy. I would like to say I had moral qualms and heart palpitations before burning the DVD and popping it in last night–but that would be a lie. I would also like to say that I’ll run out and buy the game for $50 as soon as it’s available, but I’m afraid that might be a lie, too. Maybe Rockstar Games will find my web page and demand their just desserts–it would be only appropriate. But until that day perhaps I’ll just bask in the irony of having stolen Grand Theft Auto.
In truth, the sum of $50 is negligible when compared to the amount of enjoyment I derive from these games. I probably spent 80-90 hours playing each of the last two, and given that I spend $10 to see a two-hour movie or $65 for half on hour of go-karting, it seems like a true bargain. And I think that’s why in the end I’ll have to buy it. So much of what the giant evil media companies dole out is overpriced for what you get, it’s easy to forget sometimes where the value lies.
So, the video game companies can charge $50 for a game. I can accept that. But I’m holding fast to my upper limit of $7 for DVDs and CDs. Once they hit that mark, I’ll turn in my hook and peg-leg. I promise.
cameron — 2004-10-23 04:36:30
but at least after you stole it, you didn’t drive around in it and squish people like melons until tanks were called in. so you’re slightly better than the characters of gta…
nicole — 2004-10-23 23:42:37
u must be very proud to live in the city of the country’s healthiest men. that’s gotta feel good!
Let’s see… Leslie’s parents and sister arrive Wednesday. We relax, have a simple dinner and watch the debates. Thursday morning we head out early to Big Basin for a bit of hiking and crawling over fallen redwoods. We leave Big Basin and drive to Bonny Doon for wine tasting. From Bonny Doon we drive up highway 1 to Half Moon Bay, where we get a delicious lunch at the Flying Fish, a little hole-in-the-wall connected to a farmers’ market. Then we stroll around downtown Half Moon Bay for a couple of hours, then drive home to rest.
Friday morning Leslie heads to work, and I head to Berkeley along with parents and sister. We have a great tour of Berkeley, lunch at Intermezzo cafe, then drive back down to San Jose to see the last 15 minutes of Leslie’s Friday class, then hang out in her classroom for a while. Then we head to the Winchester Mystery House for what was a suprisingly interesting tour of a sprawling 100-year-old mansion built by a psychotic arthritic heiress. Finally, dinner is had in Santa Clara at Dasaprakash with the whole group + Johanna. We retire.
Saturday everyone else heads to San Francisco, but I stay at the apartment to try to catch up on some work. At noon Doug arrives, in town for the weekend for his Apple interview. We go kart racing in the afternoon with Phil, then hang out at Phil’s place for a while playing Katamari Damacy. Around 6 we head back home for the very end of the Aggie football game (what we were at Phil’s house to avoid), then share Aladdin over a bucket of fried chicken.
Sunday morning Leslie’s family heads out to the airport. Doug and I spend the morning cramming for the interview at Apple and discussing the relative merits of grad school and jobs. We take the train up to Berkeley for a short tour and a Delicious lunch at the Kurry Klub on Shattuck, drop by Amoeba, then ride home. Later we head to Phil’s for dinner–a wonderful coconut curry chicken followed by some sort of traditional Maylay dessert that I can’t remember how to pronounce.
I leave doug there and head home for sleep. As I type Doug is interviewing at Apple for my old job. Time to get cracking on all the work I’ve been ignoring since Wednesday…
Johanna — 2004-10-19 20:18:38
I’m all excited - did Doug get the job? How did it go?
bryan — 2004-10-19 23:52:47
from what he says it seems to have gone well, but the verdict isn’t in yet from apple. i’ve got my fingers and toes crossed.
clare — 2004-10-23 09:43:22
no one can resist the pull of the shiny white computers, eh?
or is it just the bay?
or is it just that h-town blows goats?
i think it’s the goat-blowing part.
bryan — 2004-10-23 11:15:10
goats! of course. and, apple is going to make him an offer! yay.